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Meet Dr. Carmen McGuinness
Dr. McGuinness is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (# 0-13-14988), specializing in specific learning disabilities, developmental disorders, emotional behavioral disorders, child and adult attachment trauma, relationship difficulties, and behavioral medicine. Dr. McGuinness holds Masters degrees in Health Psychology Behavioral Medicine, and in Holistic Nutrition Education.
And she received her Doctoral degree in Special Education and Behavior Analysis from Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, Dr. McGuinness has received specialized training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, treatment of attachment trauma, and is a licensed provider of HeartMath biofeedback.
Dr. McGuinness has been working with children with special needs and their parents for 28 years, having founded her first educational facility in 1984, After ten years of operating a PK through 8th grade Montessori school Dr. McGuinness began a three year study of dyslexia. During this period she researched and developed the Phono-Graphix® reading method and authored Simon & Shuster’s best-selling Reading Reflex and How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence published by Yale University Press. Since 2004 Dr. McGuinness has focused on treatment of developmental disorders and the attention, learning, and behavior problems that frequently accompany these diagnoses. Today Dr. McGuinness is in private clinical practice at Chrysalis Center for Change and is the school administrator lead behavior analyst at Chrysalis School. In addition Dr. McGuinness continues in a consultative role with the Phono-Graphix Reading Company, which she founded in 1993.
CONTACT CARMEN Dr. McGuinness' Memberships and Affiliations: American Psychological Association, Association Behavior Analysts International, Florida Association of Behavior Analysts, Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, Society for Behavioral Medicine, National Association of Nutrition Professionals, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, American Montessori Society, and founding member of the Phono-Graphix Association of Reading Therapists